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The Souls of Black Folk
9780553213362$5.95"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Thus speaks W.E.B. Du Bois in The Souls Of Black Folk, one of the most prophetic and influental works in American literature. In this eloquent collection of essays, first published...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$5.95Subtotal: -
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
9780679745426$15.00An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race--and promises to change the way we read American literature. Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and... -
The Black Unicorn: Poems
9780393312379$15.95Rich continues: Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity. Her rhythms and accents... -
James Baldwin: The Last Interview And Other Conversations
9781612194004$16.99Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin "I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only." When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$16.99Subtotal: -
Nothing Personal
9780807006429$18.00James Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers. Available for the first time in a stand-alone edition,... -
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
9781101972410$16.00"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my... -
Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor
9780393318180$37.50In this dazzling anthology (Publishers Weekly), Daryl Cumber Dance has collected the often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic humor that arises from the depth of black women's souls and the breadth of their lives. The eloquent wit and... -
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
9780060934545$14.99A recently discovered collection of folktales celebrating African American oral tradition, community, and faith...”splendidly vivid and true.”--New York Times Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that... -
The Amen Corner: A Play
9780375701887$13.95A scalding, uplifting, sorrowful, and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater, The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. In his first work for the... -
Toni Morrison: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
9781612198736$16.99"Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it." -- TONI MORRISON In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama... -
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde (PB) (2020)
9781324004615$16.95Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible... -
The Big Sea: An Autobiography
9780809015498$18.00Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in... -
Ain't I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon (PB) (2023)
9780252087103$27.95Iconic as a novelist and popular cultural figure, Zora Neale Hurston remains underappreciated as an anthropologist. Is it inevitable that Hurston's literary authority should eclipse her anthropological authority? If not, what socio-cultural and... -
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (PB) (2009)
9780812980028Mahogany's List of Black Banned Books$18.00Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS's American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as... -
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
9780393651904$26.95Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase read until you understand, a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$26.95Subtotal: -
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
9780143105411$15.00Introduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of all time, whose life demonstrated the full spectrum of...